A review of installation methods

There are many alternative methods to install Sugar. The options can be very confusing because of the technical details and features that may be unfamiliar.

This page begins to itemize some of the many options that are available for those interested in learning more about the possibilities.

Note: When dealing with flash memory storage devices, such as 'USB sticks' and 'SD cards', one should be advised that changing the device format may affect its service lifetime. Fortunately, the manufacturer's default format is suitable for many of the common options.
The methods that require reformatting are indicated by a colored background such as this.

Does Not Boot from USB by holding down "C" key on power on until it boots

Tried Boot CD but it fails to boot USB "No root device found"

Macbook Pro

Matt Wronkiewicz wrote:

If anyone else is interested, I put together a boot helper for
Mirabelle. Burned to a CD, it enabled booting a USB stick on my
MacBook Pro. The stick was partitioned with the plain old MBR format
and labeled "FEDORA". I also got both VMware Fusion and VirtualBox to
boot the USB stick using this boot helper ISO. The soas-2-boot ISO
sort of works with Mirabelle sticks, but they have different kernel
versions so modules don't load, thus no networking. That is fixed in
this build.

Select Sugar on a Stick v2 Blueberry in the drop-down menu on the upper-right side to download the liveUSB disk image. Alternatively, download Blueberry here, then hit the Browse button and select the downloaded file.

Adjust the Persistent Storage slider. This enables you to save the child's work in Sugar onto the device.

Select your flash drive as the target and click the Create Live USB button.

Wait for the process to finish, then close the LiveUSB Creator program.

when the colored points aren't changing anymore, and Open Firmware says: OK

disconnect your USB/SD device and type

reboot

When there happens a failure message (or no at all but no booting-process), try to overwrite your files a second time, try to re-download your file (eg "crc miscompare"), try to reformat your usb-stick (eg "is not a multiple of the nand erase block size"), try googling... (one time it helped to remove batteries for approximately 10 seconds. There are anecdotal cases where this resets the electronic controller that has unhung.)
try!
In the case of success: Enjoy!